by John Beauchamp Jones
AUGUST 23D. —Clear and pleasant.
The enemy still occupy theWeldon Road, beyondPetersburg, in great force. Our loss in killed, wounded, and captured is estimated (in Sunday’s fight) at 1000; under the mark, perhaps.
I hear of no raid yet against theDanville Road; but the flour speculators have put up the price again. Gen. Kemper told me this morning that he had 3000 of the reserves defending theDanville Road, the number Gen. Lee asked for.
Gen. Hood is so strong atAtlanta, that he has promised to send, in an emergency, a brigade toMobile.
Interesting events will crowd each other rapidly, now.
